... Agca's testimony, (62) although this will not be covered in any detail here. A couple of final points need to be emphasised before turning to the question of Agca's organisational and ideological background. It is clear that the Bulgarians were at least indirectly involved in the crime by virtue of their facilitation of and participation in various arms and drug smuggling operations undertaken by the Sofia-based branch of the Turkish mafia, (63) and one should have no illusions about the so-called 'morality' or 'innocence' of the Soviets, who extensively and systematically employ similar types of dirty tricks. Secondly, all reconstructions should be regarded as tentative at this point, since they ...

... .gov/su_docs/aces/aaces001.html The initial menu of GPO Access includes a facility to search for GPO reports ( 'Search monthly catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT) ') US General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov Includes a facility to search for GAO reports US Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov Initial menu includes: FDA news, animal drugs, human drugs, cosmetics, foods, toxicology, medical devices and radiological health. The site also includes how to make a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA, how to obtain written FDA regulations and how to comment on ...

... , for the Mischer trail leads back to Bush. And mum's the word on those three Texas Savings and Loan institutions Bentsen owned. All three, according to former Houston Post journalist Peter Brewton, ended up in the hands of the CIA and the Mafia. The press has also (mostly) steered clear of allegations that the CIA ran drugs and weapons through the small airstrip at Mena, Arkansas. For this is anotherbipartisan scandal which forces us to examine not just then governor Clinton, who allegedly protected the operation, but also Oliver North, George Bush and the entire contra effort. The details of this insanely complex affair now fill a 600-page volume called Compromised by ...

... much information but Schmidt rather trails off as to what exactly the Major did and who he saw, and one wonders whether it resulted in some Operation Paperclip shenanigans with the result of German scientists and others coming over to the Allied side now that hostilities had ceased. A section three-quarters of the way through the book is headed 'Truth Drugs' and runs to some eleven pages. Schmidt asserts that Britain's exploration of 'truth drugs' seems to have 'partly' come from the United States with a visit to the UK by Henry K. Beecher, a Harvard anaesthetist and former member of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Beecher was tasked by his bosses to gather ...

... the early history of clandestine behavioural research. Which is not to say the he worked alone. World War 2 was the first conflict in which the human brain became a field of battle, where invading forces were led by the most notable names in psychology and pharmacology. On both sides, the war spurred furious efforts to create a 'truth drug' for use in interrogating prisoners. General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, director of OSS, tasked his team -- including Dr. Winifred Overshulser, Dr. Edward Strecker, Harry J. Anslinger and George White -- to modify human perception and behaviour through chemical means. Their 'medicine cabinet' included scopolamine, peyote, barbiturates ...

... most important patron in Latin America of the ex-Nazi Spinne network. (81) U.S . opposition to networks of ex-Nazis like Barbie and Ricord appeared to be unrelenting in the period of 1970-72, when Nixon, with important help from the CIA, pressured and eventually destroyed the Ricord network of French Corsican drug traffickers in Latin America. But even the Ricord crackdown, so often recounted by Customs and BNDD flacks as proof of U.S . determination and success in the war against drugs, has been seen in other countries as an effort to gain control over the drug traffic, not to eliminate it. Even the respectable French newspaper Le ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last | Contents | Next Issue 35 Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998, $15.95 pb ISBN 0-520-21449-8 This is a revised and updated version of this book which was first published in 1991 (and was reviewed in Lobster 24 ). Since that first edition we have had the great furore over the 1996 stories published in the San Jose Mercury News which claimed that cocaine being consumed in black areas of cities in California was being brought ...

... , ' (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration's foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott's essay is : 'The United States since World War Two, inheriting the patterns of European colonial systems before it, had collaborated with local drug lords (" drug proxies") to maintain its influence in the Third World, particularly in areas of geostrategic importance because of their proximity to petroleum resources. These alliances have cumulatively strengthened the U.S . presence in the Third World. But they have also progressively strengthened and consolidated the global drug traffic throughout the world. Most ...

... the narcotics business. (50) A memo of late May 1972, drafted by Hunt's superior in narcotic matters, Egil Krogh, reports on what is apparently President Nixon's authorisation for the Conein assassination squad, with the staggering budget of $100 million in non-accountable funds: According to Krogh's detailed 'Outline of Discussion with the President on Drugs', the President agreed to 'forceful action in [stopping] International trafficking of heroin in the host country'. Specifically the memorandum of the meeting noted, 'it is anticipated that a material reduction in the supply of heroin to the U.S . can be accomplished through a $100 million (over three years) fund which ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last | Contents | Next Issue 30 Letter from America Alex Cox CIA set for Pentagon buyout?Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a DIA campaign to remilitiarize the US intelligence structure. According to Coleman the Pentagon has never forgiven President Truman for turning OSS into a supposedly civilian entity ...